Stan Collymore discusses Alexander Isak and Marcus Rashford in his latest CaughtOffside column (Photo by Serena Taylor/Newcastle United via Getty Images, Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images, Jon Hobley/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
In his exclusive column for CaughtOffside, former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore discusses some of football’s biggest talking points, including Alexander Isak’s decision to leave Newcastle amid Liverpool interest, Marcus Rashford’s move to Barcelona, Arsenal’s pursuit of Viktor Gyokeres, and more.
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Alexander Isak pursuit is showing Liverpool’s ruthlessness
Alexander Isak celebrates scoring for Newcastle against Chelsea (Photo by Ed Sykes/Getty Images)
I can only see Alexander Isak joining Liverpool if he does leave Newcastle, which is now expected. I think this has been something that’s been ongoing probably for 12 months or more. I think the expectation from Newcastle was that it was going to be next season that other clubs were going to bid. A lot of fans will want him to be sold abroad, but it doesn’t work like that. If the player say that they’re going to down tools unless you let me go to this specific club, it’s very, very difficult for the club.
And of course, clubs do it themselves. So there isn’t a club that doesn’t let it be known a year out, sometimes two years out, that they want a specific player and they’re keeping an eye on them and they say all the nice things for the agent. And if there’s a time and a place in the future that it might happen, we’d be more than willing.
I think that what it does show, the greater story here is that the top five or six teams in the Premier League have realised now that because the sheer amount of goals that are being created and scored in the Premier League. There are so many goals being scored now that I think that you are, that every team, particularly the top four or five teams, are massively front-loaded in their forward positions.
With Liverpool, I know…
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